EP 261: Chris Sharma & Ron Kauk — The Essence of Climbing, ‘Vision Quest’ FA, and Following Your Own Path

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

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4.2 • 576 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

Chris Sharma and Ron Kauk return to the podcast for a philosophical chat. We discussed early bouldering in Camp 4, the essence of climbing, the source of motivation, reinventing your climbing identity, Chris’ latest deep water solo ‘Vision Quest’ 9a, thoughts for future climbers, the key to good climbing technique, following your own path, and much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing Podcast. This is your host, Stephen Dimmit.
0:06.6	And today is a very special episode because I am joined by two of my all-time heroes in climbing.
0:14.7	Ron Kalk and Chris Sharma, they've both been on the show before. And this was just a very
0:19.7	fun and interesting and philosophical
0:22.9	conversation. I talked very little in this episode. I asked just a few questions. This is mostly
0:29.3	just a conversation between Ron Kalk and Chris Sharma, facilitated by me. They got philosophical.
0:36.6	They got metaphysical. It went in many interesting directions,
0:40.3	and I personally really enjoyed it. we do it like we do it.
1:01.7	Hey, hey.
1:03.3	What's up, brother?
1:04.3	How's it going, man?
1:05.9	You got your wool hat on?
1:07.0	Is it cool over there?
1:08.8	It is.
1:09.7	Yeah.
1:10.5	It's a cold but sunny day in Colorado. It's nice.
1:13.5	Yeah, it's nice outside. I want to sit out there, but my neighbor's working on his house and
1:17.1	you can hear saws and stuff.
1:18.6	Yeah.
1:19.8	Like I got to be.
1:21.8	Does it look fancy? Like I got a nice place and everything?
1:24.7	It does.
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